... University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece.2Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Ioannina School of Medicine,Ioannina, Greece.3Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical ... calcium-dependent binding to cardiac troponin C, thereby enhancing the calcium sensitivity of cardiac contractile proteins [3,4] and improving myocar-dial contractility, and (B) opening of ATP-dependentpotassium ... Editor -in- Chief of thisjournal.AbbreviationsACE inhibitors: Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors; ATP: AdenosineTri-Phospate; CABG: Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting; CAD: Coronary ArteryDisease;...